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March 23rd 07, 11:17 PM
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Hard Drive Problems
I had this problem about a week ago, it went away by itself, and now it's
back again. Vista stopped recognizing my SATA II HDD for no reason. What am I supposed to do to get it working again? 
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March 23rd 07, 11:34 PM
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Hard Drive Problems
Seeing as how it appears to be an intermittent problem - and it's a SATA, I
would check to insure the cable and power connectors are seated properly and at least try a substitute SATA cable. Could be a problem with the hard drive itself which can be tested with the manf diags. SMART drives store any error codes and would give you an indication of a pending or intermittent failure. Could be the system got overheated last time by block the air vents or maybe a fan got turned off and the drive electronics sensed the over-temp and shutdown. How long was the outage last time? Bob S. "S Murder" wrote in message ... I had this problem about a week ago, it went away by itself, and now it's back again. Vista stopped recognizing my SATA II HDD for no reason. What am I supposed to do to get it working again?
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March 23rd 07, 11:49 PM
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Hard Drive Problems
I'm not sure. I just restarted my computer after trying to install some USB
drivers for an SD card reader, and when it came back on it was gone. manf diags? "BobS" wrote: Seeing as how it appears to be an intermittent problem - and it's a SATA, I would check to insure the cable and power connectors are seated properly and at least try a substitute SATA cable. Could be a problem with the hard drive itself which can be tested with the manf diags. SMART drives store any error codes and would give you an indication of a pending or intermittent failure. Could be the system got overheated last time by block the air vents or maybe a fan got turned off and the drive electronics sensed the over-temp and shutdown. How long was the outage last time? Bob S. "S Murder" wrote in message ... I had this problem about a week ago, it went away by itself, and now it's back again. Vista stopped recognizing my SATA II HDD for no reason. What am I supposed to do to get it working again?
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March 25th 07, 10:23 AM
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"S Murder" wrote in message
... I'm not sure. I just restarted my computer after trying to install some USB drivers for an SD card reader, and when it came back on it was gone. manf diags? We've been talking about drivers in another thread. Here's our chance to test the theory that C:\windows\inf\INFCACHE.1 has been corrupted by installing your new drivers. Just rename INFCACHE.1 to INFCACHE.old and reboot. I did it and my machine is still working perfectly. You will need to add 'take ownership' to the privileges of Users in its PropertiesSecurity dialog box before you can rename the file.
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March 28th 07, 01:02 AM
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Yup, it all worked. Thanks.
"Don" wrote: "S Murder" wrote in message ... I'm not sure. I just restarted my computer after trying to install some USB drivers for an SD card reader, and when it came back on it was gone. manf diags? We've been talking about drivers in another thread. Here's our chance to test the theory that C:\windows\inf\INFCACHE.1 has been corrupted by installing your new drivers. Just rename INFCACHE.1 to INFCACHE.old and reboot. I did it and my machine is still working perfectly. You will need to add 'take ownership' to the privileges of Users in its PropertiesSecurity dialog box before you can rename the file.
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